Hypermedia is a style of building systems for information representation and management around a network of multimedia nodes connected together by typed links.

Links can be explicit or virtual. For example, queries can be considered as dynamic links.

To link or not to link, that is the question.

To link explicitly is human, to link virtually is divine.

F. Halasz, "Reflections on Notecards: Seven Issues for the Next Generation of Hypermedia Systems", CACM Vol. 31, No. 7, pp. 836-855.